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Hey guys and gals
I need your help
I have a page plus account I always get the $55 dollars unlimited plan, unlimited talk, text and 1gb of data
my problem is I cant get my 3g to connect to get on the internet away from home it just aint working
If I get on WIFI at home the data works via wifi ONLY
How do I go about programming my phone to be able to use the 3G data I have used none of my 1GB worth of data this month or any month this far.

No modifications are required on a Vzw Droid 2 to be fully functional on PPC. The things I can think of are 1) cellular data might be turned off in the phone settings 2) the phone could be defective, or 3) it isn't set up correctly on PPC's side. After you verify that cellular data is turned on in the phone settings, I would call PPC CS to verify that data is actually turned on for your account. If they say it is, ask them to turn it off. Then ask them to turn it on. If you still have no data, call PPC CS and ask them to do an ESN reset. After that, if data still doesn't work, it might be your phone. A good way to test that is to put a different phone on your account to see if data works. If it does, the Droid 2 might be defective.

Check your settings on the Phone- specifically goto Settings, Battery and Data Manager, Data Delivery and then make sure Data enabled is checked. Have you rooted (or anyone) - in which case you will have a Superuser app on the phone. If it has been rooted, then there are other apps like Droidwall which can turn off 3G data usage also. Both those are showing correctly, then you may need to verify that PPC has your account enabled for data on their end. If in doubt (some have reported that the customer service have reported data enabled for an account but was not). Also there are some reporting that if you assign a temporary ESN to the account and then again have the phone's ESN assigned to the account a second time.

Another thing that can be possible with some of these phones is that if they have ever been flashed to another provider such as Metro PCS it is possible that the spc has been changed. If it is anything other than 000000 It will not ota correctly to ppc. Other than that it is probably account or hardware related. There are manual programming guides for D1, D2, DX, and such on this forum you will just have to substitute the ppc info.

I just remembered also that unless it has been flashed for use on another provider the moto's keep the correct data infomation programmed anyways and it cannot be changed even manually unless you change a specific nv item to allow the settings to be saved. I have had some phones added to my account on ppc lose data and I had to swap esns to a temp and then back before it would work even with resets and such through customer service.

Customer claimed the device was a brand new purchase. New used maybe? It sure didn't look like a week old phone to me. Very possible it was programmed to a different carrier at some point. Forget about the device pulling its own 3g keys, even with provided valid 3g keys, it still failed to establish the connection and would only sync up at 1x. It was funny to see the build date - 3510. Why someone would buy such a device is beyond me.

Either way, they were able to return it. Sold them on going with one of the moto g's instead. No removable battery/sd slot, but better in every other way in comparison.

Customer claimed the device was a brand new purchase. New used maybe? It sure didn't look like a week old phone to me. Very possible it was programmed to a different carrier at some point. Forget about the device pulling its own 3g keys, even with provided valid 3g keys, it still failed to establish the connection and would only sync up at 1x. It was funny to see the build date - 3510. Why someone would buy such a device is beyond me. Either way, they were able to return it. Sold them on going with one of the moto g's instead. No removable battery/sd slot, but better in every other way in comparison.

Just FYI, the reason somebody would "buy such a device" is because the Droid X is a good 3G (only) device that, if it hadn't been previously modified and/or was defective in some other way, would work on PPC with no modification required, and would be a solid device with no worries of it becoming unflashed at some point due to an OTA update or some other reason. Another reason would be the $40-ish dollar price tag for one in good condition from an eBay seller, compared to around $200 (based on what I've read on forums) for a flashed Moto G.